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DEEPA SHALINI K

Product Owner • Generative AI Solutions

Product Owner specialising in AI-powered enterprise solutions at scale. I partner with senior stakeholders to shape roadmaps, align priorities, and turn complex business problems into measurable outcomes—taking ideas from rapid prototypes to production-grade delivery. With a developer background, I’m technically fluent across LLMs, agent workflows, RAG, and enterprise integrations, with a strong focus on KPI-driven value realisation. I’m also an experienced corporate speaker and moderator, known for executive-ready storytelling and VP-level communication.

Work Experience

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Product Owner III — Generative AI Solutions
Sep 2025 — Present
Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Own product vision, roadmap, and backlog, driving multi-quarter delivery for AI-powered productivity tools for instrument services, delivering $3.5M in annual savings and 25x user growth.
  • Own and drive 0→1 AI prototyping and productisation of an intuitive contract renewals decision-support tool, with end-to-end ownership of vision, roadmap, and backlog, enabling sales representatives with customer-ready talking points and surfacing non-compliances, upsell, and bundling opportunities.
  • Steered pilot-to-production rollout of a GenAI image pipeline, defining success metrics, evaluation criteria, and governance, achieving a 99% reduction in cost per image.
Product Owner II — Generative AI Solutions
Sep 2024 — Aug 2025
Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Spearheaded discovery, prototyping, and launch of a 0→1 AI assistant embedded in ServiceNow, improving internal service workflows by leveraging historical tickets and knowledge to reduce issue resolution time by 30%.
  • Owned product strategy and delivery for a GenAI-driven opportunity intelligence platform, aligning product portfolio data with public budgets, tenders, and funding sources to drive a 40% increase in targeted commercial opportunities.
  • Aligned engineering, commercial, and operations teams by translating ambiguous needs into clear product scope, success metrics, and adoption plans.
Software Engineer II
May 2022 — Sep 2024
Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Led a flagship project to design and deliver analytics and visualization experiences for NGS workflows within SampleManager LIMS, collaborating closely with biologists, subject-matter experts, pre-sales, and product teams to translate complex domain needs into scalable solutions and customer-facing demos—contributing to three major enterprise wins within three months.
  • Built and configured ML models and analytical dashboards using Python and SQL to identify fail-early samples, helping customers save resources and improve budgeting and planning for upcoming months.
  • Built interactive BI dashboards and demo applications using Python, Plotly, C#, and SQL, supporting data-driven storytelling in pre-sales and customer engagements.
Software Engineer I
Aug 2020 — May 2022
Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Engineered industry-specific solutions in Platform for Science (PFS) LIMS and SampleManager LIMS platforms, reducing customer customization effort by 40%.
  • Built configurable BI dashboards within SampleManager LIMS using SQL and C#, providing customers with a bird's-eye view of laboratory processes and compliance, enabling easy identification of bottlenecks and non-compliances.

Achievements

Recognition for excellence in data visualization, product design, and academic achievement—from generative AI-driven visualization innovation to award-winning app development and all-round academic performance.

Peregrine Prize — Plotly Analytics Vibe-a-thon

2025 • Plotly

Recognised for creating unconventional, insight-driven visualization using generative AI prompting, demonstrating new ways to explore and reason about complex datasets.

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Winner — Plotly Autumn App Challenge

2022 • Plotly

Built a data application celebrated for product design excellence, intuitive user experience, and compelling data storytelling through interactive visualization.

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Runner-Up — Plotly Summer App Challenge

2022 • Plotly

Awarded for creative BI visualization with smooth navigation and effective exploration patterns that made complex data accessible to users.

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Medal of Excellence for Best All-round Performance — M.Sc.

2020 • IBAB, Bangalore

Honoured as an outstanding all-rounder for excellence across academics, research, public speaking, and extracurricular contributions.

Education

M.Sc. Bioinformatics & Biotechnology
Jul 2018 — Jul 2020
Institute for Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore
B.Sc. Biotechnology
Jun 2015 — May 2018
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore

Leadership Positions

Leadership roles focused on building inclusive communities, amplifying underrepresented voices in technology, and driving collaborative initiatives across organisations and institutions.

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Women in IT Lead — Thermo Fisher Scientific

2025–Ongoing

  • Led site-wide initiatives to amplify women in tech by enabling opportunities to lead technical sessions, build confidence, expand networks, and create visibility.
  • Drove AI-native operations within the Women in IT committee, with all communications and artefacts created and reviewed using AI-assisted workflows.
  • Moderated the Women in IT book club, curating women-centric reads to foster awareness of lived experiences and encourage inclusive allyship.
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Science Secretary — Mount Carmel College

2017–2018

  • Organized and executed inter-collegiate science events and challenges, collaborating across departments and student committees.
  • Ideated and led activities for the annual science fest, shaping themes, formats, and engagement strategies.

Thought Leadership

A confident public speaker and moderator, known for clear thinking, strong stage presence, and engaging senior leaders and large audiences with executive-ready communication.

Product Idea: ChaRtBot
For Individuals who want to explore, understand, and communicate data quickly
Who Are slowed down by code-heavy tools, fragile AI outputs, or text-only responses
ChaRtBot is A visual analytics assistant
That Transforms natural-language questions and raw datasets into fast, interactive, and explainable single- and multi-chart visualization — in seconds
Unlike Text-first chatbots or rigid, template-driven analytics tools
ChaRtBot prioritises Speed, interactivity, and human-in-the-loop verification through dataset inspection, generated code visibility, and exportable outputs
While also Proactively clarifying ambiguous intent, recovering from errors, suggesting exploratory analyses, surfacing outliers and patterns, and selecting appropriate analytical or modelling approaches — while keeping users confidently in control

ChaRtBot is a visual analytics assistant that enables researchers and data-driven individuals to explore, analyse, and model datasets using natural language — producing interactive, inspectable visualization with full visibility into both data and AI-generated code.

No signup required. Upload a CSV and explore your data
through interactive, explainable visualization — in seconds.

👉 Try ChaRtBot live.

Product Vision and Strategy

Product Vision

ChaRtBot is a visual analytics assistant designed to support the full analytical lifecycle — from exploratory data analysis to modelling and research communication — through natural-language interaction and transparent, interactive visualization.

The vision is to make data exploration and analysis visual-first, reliable, and explainable, enabling individuals to move from raw datasets to defensible insights while keeping humans firmly in the loop through dataset inspection, explicit transformations, generated code visibility, and reproducible outputs.

Unlike text-centric AI tools that respond with explanations, ChaRtBot responds with interactive visual reasoning. Unlike traditional analytics platforms that prioritise dashboards and configuration, ChaRtBot is lightweight, web-based, and requires no setup — lowering the barrier to rigorous analysis without sacrificing credibility.

As ChaRtBot matures, it extends beyond exploration to support publication-grade outputs, including static visualization suitable for academic and professional dissemination, ensuring insights can move seamlessly from analysis to communication.

Product Strategy

ChaRtBot is intentionally designed around four core principles:

1. Visual reasoning first

visualization are not an output format — they are the primary medium for reasoning.

ChaRtBot prioritises interactive, exploratory visuals that allow users to:

  • Inspect distributions, relationships, and outliers
  • Iterate quickly on hypotheses
  • Build intuition before formal modelling

Text and explanations exist to support visuals, not replace them.

2. Progressive depth

ChaRtBot evolves with the user’s analytical needs.

  • Early interactions prioritise fast, interactive exploration
  • Generated code and analytical steps are explained in plain language alongside visual outputs
  • Advanced workflows support full-scale exploratory data analysis and machine learning
  • Mature workflows enable publication-ready static outputs suitable for academic and professional dissemination

This progression allows non-technical users to start quickly while enabling deeper, research-grade analysis over time — without forcing complexity upfront.

3. Transparency as a non-negotiable constraint

All analysis performed by ChaRtBot is inspectable and reproducible.

Users can:

  • Examine raw and transformed data
  • Review AI-generated Python code
  • Understand assumptions, aggregations, and modelling choices through both code and natural-language explanations
  • Export both interactive and static outputs with confidence

Transparency is treated as a prerequisite for trust, scientific validity, and human oversight at every stage of the workflow.

4. Individual- and research-first adoption

ChaRtBot is built for individual researchers, students, and data-driven professionals working on exploratory analysis, learning, and research projects.

It intentionally avoids the overhead of enterprise BI tools — such as rigid schemas, dashboards, and licensing complexity — while still supporting workflows that demand analytical rigor and publishable outputs.

Roadmap

Product Roadmap

ChaRtBot is developed in phases, each progressively increasing analytical depth, reliability, and usability while maintaining transparency and user control.

Phase 0: Current MVP

Goal: Deliver instant, shareable visual insights from user-provided data

Capabilities

  • CSV upload with interactive data table (sort, filter, scan)
  • Natural-language prompts for interactive chart generation
  • Support for complex subplotting and multi-chart layouts
  • Visibility into the generated Python code
  • Interactive HTML export
  • Static image export
  • Web-based, link-only access (no installation required)
  • Chart rendering within seconds

User Value

  • Faster visual exploration compared to text-based AI tools and desktop software
  • Shareable interactive outputs for analysis and communication
  • Transparency through dataset inspection and code visibility
Phase 1: Explainability & Reliability

Goal: Expand accessibility to non-technical users while increasing trust and robustness

Capabilities

  • Plain-language explanations of generated code
  • Visual explanations of data transformations
  • Explicit communication of system assumptions
  • Pre-execution validation (schema, columns, types)
  • Multi-pass code correction to recover from errors
  • Fallback chart strategies when complex visualization fail
  • User confidence checks and satisfaction feedback

Why this matters

  • Fewer failed or misleading outputs
  • Clear understanding of how results are produced, even to non-Python users
  • Increased confidence in correctness and reliability
Phase 2: Conversational Refinement & Intent Clarification

Goal: Resolve ambiguity before it leads to incorrect analysis

Capabilities

  • Detection of ambiguous or incomplete prompts
  • Targeted follow-up questions to clarify intent
  • Explicit declaration of assumptions when clarification is skipped
  • Chart and analysis structure suggestions
  • Guided disambiguation for multi-structure datasets (e.g. multi-sheet files), including schema and subset selection

User Value

  • Fewer incorrect or misaligned charts
  • More collaborative, analyst-like interaction
  • Reduced trial-and-error prompting
Phase 3: Advanced EDA & Statistical Analysis

Goal: Enable deeper reasoning beyond individual charts

Capabilities

  • Automated and guided exploratory data analysis
  • Distribution, correlation, and outlier detection
  • Statistical analysis with visual explanations
  • Dataset-aware chart recommendations
  • Advanced techniques such as PCA, clustering, and dimensionality reduction

User Value

  • Faster discovery of patterns and anomalies
  • Scalable exploration of complex datasets
  • Shift from charting to analytical reasoning
Phase 4: Machine Learning–Augmented Analysis

Goal: Support predictive and inferential analysis grounded in exploratory understanding

Capabilities

  • Scalable exploratory data analysis for large datasets
  • Guided transition from EDA to modelling
  • Task-aware model selection
  • Model training for prediction and classification
  • Accuracy evaluation using visual diagnostics (e.g. error distributions, confusion matrices)
  • Clear reporting of accuracy, model performance, limitations, and assumptions

User Value

  • Predictive insights without manual ML setup
  • Explainable and defensible modelling outcomes
  • Clear understanding of model behaviour and reliability
Phase 5: Real-Time & External Data Integration

Goal: Reduce dependency on manual dataset uploads

Capabilities

  • Integration with public and real-time data sources
  • Source citation and provenance visibility
  • Dataset enrichment and combination
  • Data freshness checks

User Value

  • Faster insights without manual data collection
  • Support for time-sensitive and contextual analyses
  • Broader analytical possibilities beyond static files
Phase 6: Publication-Grade Outputs & Sharing

Goal: Enable high-quality communication of insights

Capabilities

  • Publication-ready chart styling and themes
  • High-resolution static exports for papers, posters, and presentations
  • Versioned chart history
  • Shareable links with embedded interactivity

Strategic Impact

  • Seamless transition from data → analysis → communication
  • Outputs suitable for reports, presentations, and publication
  • Reduced friction in the final mile of analysis
KPIs and Success Metrics

ChaRtBot's success is measured across adoption, insight velocity, reliability, and trust, with additional metrics tracking whether users progress toward deeper analytical workflows over time.

1. Adoption & Core Engagement

Why: To validate that ChaRtBot delivers immediate, repeatable value as part of users' data exploration workflow.

Metrics

  • Weekly Active Users (WAU)
  • Datasets analysed per active user
  • Average charts generated per dataset
  • Percentage of sessions with conversational follow-up prompts (Phase 2+)
  • Usage rate of multi-chart and subplot layouts
2. Insight Velocity & Exploration Quality

Why: ChaRtBot's primary value is helping users reach meaningful insights quickly through visual reasoning.

Metrics

  • Median time to first chart
  • Median time to first follow-up analysis
  • Average number of chart iterations per dataset
  • Percentage of sessions progressing beyond a single chart

NOTE: Fewer iterations with deeper follow-ups is a positive signal, not a failure.

3. Performance & Reliability

Why: Analytical trust breaks quickly when outputs fail, stall, or behave inconsistently.

Metrics

  • Chart render success rate
  • Median chart render time
  • Error recovery success rate (Phase 1+)
  • Drop-off rate during chart generation or correction flows
4. Trust, Transparency & Explainability

Why: ChaRtBot is explicitly human-in-the-loop; trust is demonstrated through inspection, validation, and reuse.

Metrics

  • Percentage of sessions where users inspect generated code
  • Percentage of sessions where users view natural-language explanations of analytical steps (Phase 1+)
  • Percentage of exports reused without modification
  • User-reported confidence in correctness after analysis (Phase 1+)

NOTE: Reuse without modification is a strong trust signal.

5. Analytical Depth & Workflow Progression

Why: To measure whether users move from basic visual exploration toward deeper analytical reasoning over time.

Metrics

  • Percentage of sessions using guided EDA features (Phase 3+)
  • Percentage of datasets progressing from EDA to modelling (Phase 4+)
  • Frequency of model evaluation or iteration based on diagnostics (Phase 4+)
  • User-reported clarity around assumptions and limitations (Phase 3+)
6. Retention & Longitudinal Value

Why: Long-term success depends on whether ChaRtBot grows with users rather than being a one-off utility.

Metrics

  • Retention rate by analytical depth (basic vs advanced users)
  • Increase in average workflow depth per returning user
  • Repeat analysis on the same dataset over time
  • Percentage of users adopting new phases as they are released